Our final episode of Season 6 of the Crazy Town podcast dropped yesterday. It is likely this will be the final season structured this way (focusing on a singular theme) and there's a possibility that we retire the podcast altogether. Very mixed emotions for me right now. We spent the season exploring a number of isms, looking at them through the lens of Marvin Harris's Cultural Materialism, and how to escape them. Isms like: #industrialism, #consumerism, #urbanism, #speedism, #technologyism, #globalism, #growthism, #capitalism, #imperialism, #individualism, #humanocentrism, #extremism, and #otherism. Lots of interesting learnings, suggestions, and laughs along the way. But in this final episode, we came to the conclusion that the final ism to escape is escapism itself. (Cue FDR's "nothing to fear but fear itself" speech.) A big thanks to the team Post Carbon Institute for their work on this podcast, Melody Allison for her great production work, our volunteers, listeners, supporters and, of course, my co-hosts Jason Bradford and Rob Dietz. https://lnkd.in/g7Wbjubg
Ben Roberts
6mo
I have loved Crazy Town. It's a brilliant body of work. Was listening to the Otherism episode in the car today, actually. If you choose to make that the final one, you can rest on some very well-earned laurels. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Gary Kendall
6mo
Keep on keeping on Asher, Jason and Rob! Crazy Town is too important to retire - maybe it’s earned a short sabbatical, but not retirement! Another thematic thread could be the antidote to Phalse Prophets: who are the Superhero Sustainabologists and what was their unique contribution?
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6moThank you so much all of you for the incredible work you did with this podcast! As much as I love listening to and learning from the likes of Nate Hagens, Rachel Donald and so many others - the sarcastic and absurd humour of Crazy Town is such a breath of fresh air when discussing these difficult topics - as soon as a new episode drops it always gets first priority in my listening feed 😊 And just like you said, maybe there is no escaping Crazy Town, podcast included 😄 - and as the Great Unraveling unravels you could still help us make sense of the madness through this most essential and universal human communication mechanism: laughter ❤️